Great Quotes

 

Some are born great some achieve greatness      and some have greatness thrust upon them.|William Shakespeare

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.|Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.|Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.|Vincent Van Gogh

If you cannot do great things          do small things in a great way.|Napoleon Hill

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.|Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

After climbing a great hill   one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.|Nelson Mandela

I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour           the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.|Vince Lombardi

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.|Albert Einstein

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.|William James

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.|Honore de Balzac

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.|Charles R. Swindoll

I am the greatest       I said that even before I knew I was.|Muhammad Ali

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.|Mahatma Gandhi

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.|Marcus Aurelius

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.|Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.|Plato

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.|Gilbert K. Chesterton

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.|Socrates

The greater the obstacle      the more glory in overcoming it.|Moliere

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?|Henry David Thoreau

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage     disappointment with cheerfulness     and trial with humility.|Thomas S. Monson

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.|Jack Kerouac

A man is great by deeds      not by birth.|Chanakya

The great question that has never been answered            and which I have not yet been able to answer            despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul        is ‘What does a woman want?’|Sigmund Freud

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.|Benjamin Disraeli

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.|Mother Teresa

The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart.|Mencius

See everything          overlook a great deal          correct a little.|Pope John XXIII

Never was anything great achieved without danger.|Niccolo Machiavelli

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.|Washington Irving

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.|Robert Kennedy

To become truly great          one has to stand with people         not above them.|Montesquieu

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.|John C. Maxwell

Great people talk about ideas         average people talk about things   and small people talk about wine.|Fran Lebowitz

Good artists copy     great artists steal.|Pablo Picasso

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.|Henry Rollins

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.|Walter Bagehot

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.|Carl Jung

The greater the effort           the greater the glory.|Pierre Corneille

Only passions           great passions can elevate the soul to great things.|Denis Diderot

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.|Golda Meir

Character may be manifested in the great moments        but it is made in the small ones.|Phillips Brooks

Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.|Joe Paterno

The greater the artist the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.|Robert Hughes

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used  not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage           not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny     but to rouse them from lethargy          and to aid them to judge for themselves.|William Ellery Channing

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.|Demosthenes

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.|Maya Angelou

To be really great in little things    to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life            is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.|Harriet Beecher Stowe

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.|Kenny Rogers

Be great in act           as you have been in thought.|Jean Paul

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.|Henry Van Dyke

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.|Cesare Lombroso

The price of greatness is responsibility.|Winston Churchill

For the person for whom small things do not exist         the great is not great.|Jose Ortega y Gasset

We grow small trying to be great.|E. Stanley Jones

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.|George Herbert

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.|Plato

I think what motivates people is not great hate    but great love for other people.|Huey Newton

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind           but great actions speak to all mankind.|Theodore Roosevelt

And what he greatly thought          he nobly dared.|Homer

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice      and is never the result of selfishness.|Napoleon Hill

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.|John F. Kennedy

It’s hard to be humble          when you’re as great as I am.|Muhammad Ali

I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.|Wernher von Braun

Whatever I have tried to do in life I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to        I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.|Charles Dickens

Great acts are made up of small deeds.|Lao Tzu

I long to accomplish a great and noble task          but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.|Helen Keller

To do a great right do a little wrong.|William Shakespeare

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men     the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.|David Hume

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.|Elbert Hubbard

The greater the difficulty    the more the glory in surmounting it.|Charles de Saint-Évremond

To have great poets  there must be great audiences.|Walt Whitman

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.|Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling       but in rising again after you fall.|Vince Lombardi

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.|Mark Twain

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.|James Allen

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.|Thomas Carlyle

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be      the deeper must be its foundation.|Saint Augustine

Great things are won by great dangers.|Herodotus

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief  the more will reality and the world go forth from it.|Rainer Maria Rilke

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.|Friedrich Nietzsche

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views     not even kindness.|Bryant H. McGill

To be great is to be misunderstood.|Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a child of God     I am greater than anything that can happen to me.|A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

A retentive memory may be a good thing but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.|Elbert Hubbard

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.|John Ruskin

The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars           nor its great scholars great men.|Oliver Wendell Holmes         Sr.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object         and pursue it for life.|Anna Letitia Barbauld

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking innovative    risk-taking    God- loving family-oriented American people.|Mitt Romney

You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.|Zig Ziglar

To accomplish great things we must not only act           but also dream; not only plan        but also believe.|Anatole France

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.|John D. Rockefeller

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family   friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.|Lil’ Kim

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.|Jim Carrey

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.|A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles            but most of them never happened.|Mark Twain

My father always used to say that when you die if you’ve got five real friends        then you’ve had a great life.|Lee Iacocca

Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.|Mitch Hedberg

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.|Benjamin Franklin

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.|Ariel Durant

It has been great journey from where I have started to where I am today. I am really blessed with God’s grace.|Dhanush

If it wasn’t hard         everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.|Tom Hanks

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.|Robin Williams

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.|Isaac Asimov

Our posturings          our imagined self-importance       the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe       are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.|Carl Sagan

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.|Simone Weil

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.|Epictetus

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last     and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.|H. L. Mencken

You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you’re going to have a strong superstructure.|Gordon B. Hinckley

Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it’s just your voice   you really do use all your physicality. I’ve done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she’s 10 feet tall          so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters.|Ashley Bell

To become a great player    you’ve got to show real dedication and commitment to football          and you’ve got to be very humble and hard-working. And    above all       you’ve got to fight to make your dreams come true.|Sergio Ramos

Only great minds can afford a simple style.|Stendhal

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.|Napoleon Bonaparte

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises     either of virtue or mischief.|Francis Bacon

The harder the struggle        the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.|Swami Sivananda

We can have democracy in this country   or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few      but we can’t have both.|Louis D. Brandeis

The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.|Jon Ronson

Where words are restrained the eyes often talk a great deal.|Samuel Richardson

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us          unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.|Peter Marshall

Every day      my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun   never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small do it well or not at all.’|Quincy Jones

It’s always great to see old friends especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months.|William Regal

There must be a beginning of any great matter    but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.|Francis Drake

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes       one of his great surprises   is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.|Henry Ford

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations… eating with friends      the service           the ambience.|LeRoy Neiman

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.|Simon Sinek

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit  everyone hits great forehands and backhands.|Novak Djokovic

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste         even if they don’t realize it. Even if you’re not a great chef    there’s nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn’t.|Gerard Depardieu

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles        but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.|Theodore Roosevelt

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers           who can cut through argument      debate and doubt  to offer a solution everybody can understand.|Colin Powell

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white            and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.|Maeve Binchy

I have never killed a man    but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.|Clarence Darrow

Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination        and a little bit of luck.|Stefano Gabbana

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand       as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven        we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail and not drift nor lie at anchor.|Oliver Wendell Holmes           Sr.

I’ve learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable  but believing in your talents          your abilities and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom – how great is that?|Soledad O’Brien

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.|Nicolas Cage

Great people have great values and great ethics.|Jeffrey Gitomer

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.|Rabindranath Tagore

I must be a mermaid Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.|Anais Nin

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.|Bill Gates

If you do build a great experience customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.|Jeff Bezos

Her angel’s face        As the great eye of heaven shined bright And made a sunshine in the shady place.|Edmund Spenser

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without            but because of the insidious forces working from within.|Douglas MacArthur

To me there’s no great chef without a great team.|Daniel Boulud

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint        and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.|Omar Khayyam

I’m not a hunter        but I’ve been around guns all my life. I’m a great shot.|Sam Elliott

The great thieves lead away the little thief.|Diogenes

Forgive           O Lord          my little jokes on Thee       and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.|Robert Frost

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.|Elsa Schiaparelli

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare pray and achieve – to make it happen.|Ben Carson

I’m surrounded by nothing but great people. I’ve been blessed with that         so really        I’ve got no choice but to be an all-around good person.|Tim Duncan

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‘Lord remember me.’|Billy Graham

Great wits are sure to madness near allied           and thin partitions do their bounds divide.|John Dryden

My idea of good company is the company of clever      well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.|Jane Austen

Great times    beautiful place         Boulder. In fact       that’s where I proposed to Jaye when I took her back there. In the parking lot of Baseline Liquors!|Joe Maddon

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights       and our comfort when we occasionally falter.|Brad Henry

Great things are not done by impulse        but by a series of small things brought together.|George Eliot

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go      but ought to be.|Rosalynn Carter

Every great man       every successful man          no matter what the field of endeavor       has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.|W. Clement Stone

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth   great return   great satisfaction      great reputation       and great joy.|Jim Rohn

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing        and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.|Oscar Wilde

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.|Voltaire

The spirit of celebration and togetherness is a great source of inspiration.|Nandita Mahtani

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy… or they become legend.|Jim Harrison

It takes a great man to be a good listener.|Calvin Coolidge

With the right people           culture           and values    you can accomplish great things.|Tricia Griffith

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. ‘If you are a jeweler     or a surgeon or a cook        you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.|Jacques Pepin

Fables should be taught as fables   myths as myths        and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them   and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.|Hypatia

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think       ‘Boy   those were great old days.’ Well            you know      we’re living in the good old days.|Joel Osteen

I feel like life is really short            and it’s important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way        whether it’s a challenging day or a great day       just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are  you can’t escape challenges; they are part of life.|Miranda Kerr

I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa            Canada – nationally ranked when I was   like    13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15      and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.|Matthew Perry

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.|Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Change is never easy           and it often creates discord but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth       we can accomplish great things.|David Suzuki

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.|Stephen Covey

I do what I do. You like it   great. You don’t       go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people who stuck with me.|Ice Cube

Who in the world am I? Ah that’s the great puzzle.|Lewis Carroll

It’s a great day for a ball game; let’s play two!|Ernie Banks

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.|Tacitus

Faith is the great cop-out    the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of        even perhaps because of    the lack of evidence.|Richard Dawkins

The name       Seventh-day Adventist       is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God      and those who worship the beast  and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast.|Ellen G. White

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result   but the cause of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.|Norman Vincent Peale

I have a lot of great memories        but I can’t imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.|Rob Lowe

Prince is from the school of James Brown            and I love James Brown because of all the great rhythms he plays.|Miles Davis

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.|James Allen

A lot of people          when a guy scores a lot of goals   think  ‘He’s a great player’ because a goal is very important          but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists            encourage his colleagues   give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who           when a team does not do well         becomes one of the leaders.|Pele

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.|Alfred Lord Tennyson

Our political leaders have great responsibilities  but as with many situations in life people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so.|Paul Polman

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today         but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.|Thomas Sowell

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.|Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nostalgia is one thing. It’s great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to give them what they want to hear.|Denny Laine

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.|James A. Michener

When you get to know a lot of people      you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks           brains goodness or anything else. It takes all the people – black and white            Catholic        Jewish and Protestant         recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants – to make up America.|Judy Garland

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity        because if you’re passionate about something            then you’re more willing to take risks.|Yo-Yo Ma

A great tailor is like a great personal trainer – they tailor that suit to your natural physique.|Jidenna

It’s a great honour to be recognised and appreciated by your fellow colleagues.|Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies        but just as much to stand up to our friends.|J. K. Rowling

At forty-five degrees           the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant   a great scattered flame will leap up  when one will want to get evidence from the Normans.|Nostradamus

Pleasant it is  when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters       to gaze from shore upon another’s great tribulation; not because any man’s troubles are a delectable joy         but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.|Lucretius

A battle lost or won is easily described    understood   and appreciated       but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection      as well as observation        to appreciate it.|Frederick Douglass

I have Chinese blood in me… I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.|Ferdinand Marcos

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.|Lara Flynn Boyle

Mistakes are part of the game. It’s how well you recover from them   that’s the mark of a great player.|Alice Cooper

All great empires die from within.|Terry Bradshaw

The Great Depression          like most other periods of severe unemployment           was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.|Milton Friedman

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.|Dan Stevens

I don’t know of any great man who ever had a great son.|Anthony Mann

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut when you really follow the things that feel great to you        you can never lose  because settling is the worst feeling in the world.|Rihanna

Some are born great some achieve greatness      and some hire public relations officers.|Daniel J. Boorstin

A great figure or physique is nice  but it’s self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.|Vivica A. Fox

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death        if he can live on after he’s dead     then maybe he was a great man.|James Dean

A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color.|Yves Saint Laurent

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.|Og Mandino

It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.|Keith Richards

Competition is great. And as long as it’s friendly and not a malicious thing   then I think it’s cool.|Janet Jackson

I am the herald of the Great King.|Francis of Assisi

Expect great things from God         attempt great things for God.|William Carey

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are         I mean           that’s the foundation for everything great.|Jay-Z

Food is the great connector and laughs are the cement. If we go out to eat and have a nice meal   that’s one thing. If we can share a laugh    now we’re friends.|Philip Rosenthal

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.|Edgar Allan Poe

Great souls suffer in silence.|Friedrich Schiller

The great nations have always acted like gangsters        and the small nations like prostitutes.|Stanley Kubrick

Eventually     I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.|Frank Lloyd Wright

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope   Self.|Martin Luther

Behind every great athlete is a masterful coach that inspires the athlete to evolve into the strongest performer they can become.|Cathy Engelbert

Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery     above weakness            above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.|Leon Trotsky

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.|Thomas Paine

It always feels nice to be associated with a team you share a great bond with.|Anushka Shetty

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.|Paul Valery

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.|John Podhoretz

Until you’re ready to look foolish  you’ll never have the possibility of being great.|Cher

Great dancers are not great because of their technique  they are great because of their passion.|Martha Graham

The target for every great champion is to play for the team.|Antonio Conte

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.|Pythagoras

A good captain is great only if he has a great team.|S. Sreesanth

Everyone       Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small   no one is too old or too young to do something.|Bobby Sands

Out of Ireland have we come          great hatred  little room     maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother’s womb a fanatic heart.|William Butler Yeats

Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.|Willem Dafoe

London          that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.|Arthur Conan Doyle

If you have love in your life           it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don’t have love in your life           no matter what else there is           it’s not enough.|Ann Landers

Everything has become so easy. It’s great that it’s at your fingertips    but I miss those good old days. And we’re connected           but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we’re speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.|Rami Malek

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land          and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.|John Wayne

By people getting together and celebrating this idea of togetherness   great things can happen.|Edward Enninful

We struggle with eating healthily  obesity          and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.|Marcus Samuelsson

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims one turns       as it were      instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms          like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.|George Orwell

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects     I think           is still the secret of great creative people.|Leo Burnett

You don’t build a great castle just all at once.|Baker Mayfield

We are domesticated animals         revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves – with its contentions   wranglings    its impossible political leaders      its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.|Jiddu Krishnamurti

An out-and-out fast bowler is one of the great sights in cricket.|James Anderson

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist       he is neither a strategist      nor is he schooled in the operational arts     nor is he a tactician nor is he a general   nor is he a soldier. Other than that         he’s a great military man    I want you to know that.|Norman Schwarzkopf

Every gift which is given    even though it be small       is in reality great      if it is given with affection.|Pindar

I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.|Trey Anastasio

I think journalism is a great way to do public service    to have an impact on your community.|Bob Schieffer

And so while the great ones depart to their dinner          the secretary stays   growing thinner and thinner           racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.|Arthur Bryant

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am          I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.|Bjorn Borg

I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.|Abraham Verghese

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.|Steven Wright

In a way         we are magicians. We are alchemists       sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.|Billy Joel

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret the real now talks constantly. News reports   information  statistics        and surveys are everywhere.|Michel De Certeau

That’s another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.|Frances McDormand

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.|Alexander the Great

Love proves itself by deeds so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers           and these flowers are every little sacrifice            every glance and word        and the doing of the least actions for love.|Thérèse of Lisieux

People see police officers and think they’re such bad people. We have some who can be some bad people. But we have some great ones out there   that are here to protect us.|Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

It’s great to be a blonde. With low expectations it’s very easy to surprise people.|Pamela Anderson

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something         for a split second it’s so great            because for a little bit I’m out of my brain           and it’s got nothing to do with me. I’m not trying to figure it out            you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.|Chris Evans

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.|James Monroe

I believe in giving more than 100% on the field  and I don’t really worry about the result if there’s great commitment on the field. That’s victory for me.|MS Dhoni

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.|Coretta Scott King

That’s the great thing about a tractor. You can’t really hear the phone ring.|Jeff Foxworthy

I’ve had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.|Mike Huckabee

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.|Dan Rather

I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It’s just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great.|Elena Vesnina

To be a liar    you’ve got to have a great memory           and I don’t have a memory.|Ozzy Osbourne

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.|Alan Turing

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.|Mary Gordon

Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow       in the flight of the butterfly            in the chirping of a tree-toad or the sweep of an eagle – my life loves to see how others live            exults in their joy    and so far is partner in their great concern.|Edward Everett Hale

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.|Katharine Hepburn

Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable   and things can change overnight for any of us.|Chanda Kochhar

I’m never bored        never ever bored. If I’ve got a day off I’ll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I’m a great observer.|David Suchet

The aim          if reached or not      makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare        leave the rest to fate!|Robert Browning

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.|Arnold H. Glasow

I just think I’m blessed. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. I have a great grandmother that passed away at 104 and two grandparents that passed away at 97 and 95          and they never worried about protein. They just enjoyed life          and that’s what I’m doing.|Herschel Walker

People who become ‘elite’ at what they do aren’t striving to be ‘elite’ just to join some special club. They take great joy and satisfaction in the pursuit of mastery and they compete against themselves      not others.|Justine Musk

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.|Plutarch

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example – I mean without looking for something beyond and above living           I mean living must be your whole occupation.|Nazim Hikmet

Material possessions winning scores         and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord            because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.|John Wooden

The workshop to me always means great atmosphere    working         smell of wood          dust and            at the end of the day            you’ve created something.|David Linley

Human beings are capable of great good  but also of the basest evil.|William Barr

Dinner is often a very celebratory environment  a very safe place      a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It’s a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.|Brett Gelman

A great accomplishment shouldn’t be the end of the road          just the starting point for the next leap forward.|Harvey Mackay

I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.|Carl Zeiss

For most of us           the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.|John Ortberg

I love Australia; it was a really      really nice experience for me. It’s such a beautiful place. The people are beautiful – like    really beautiful – and they are beautiful in terms of their personalities. It’s a great place to be. It’s like you are in a little bit of a dream world.|Shawn Mendes

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.|Jerry Seinfeld

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill   because you would put yourself in great peril.|Joan of Arc

I know I’m not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.|Melanie Chisholm

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.|Robert M. Pirsig

There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?|Zendaya

Americans are the great Satan        the wounded snake.|Ruhollah Khomeini

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.|Richard M. Nixon

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.|Zachary Quinto

It’s never too late to be great.|Jordan Burroughs

Through our great good fortune     in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.|Oliver Wendell Holmes       Jr.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.|John W. Gardner

It’s very corny           ‘never give up’ – but it’s just a great quote that I always follow.|Noah Schnapp

The city is like a great house          and the house in its turn a small city.|Leon Battista Alberti

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people   not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.|Narendra Modi

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world… not make a fast buck.|Guy Kawasaki

The great thing about pastry is there are so many avenues – it’s very hard to get bored doing this.|Adriano Zumbo

Do not look down upon any Muslim         for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.|Abu Bakr

Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges  transcend borders and cultures      and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.|Richard Attias

My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.|Abraham Lincoln

The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it        but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.|Mick Jagger

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control            that things will flow as they will   and that you will flow with them  to your great delight and benefit.|Emmanuel Teney

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail    but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.|Alexander Graham Bell

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you’re pampered        you get lazy.|Rob Zombie

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola      and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke       and just think           you can drink Coke     too.|Andy Warhol

Even though I write about the human race           the further away from them           the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.|Charles Bukowski

The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial look       but the great gift still has to come from Africa – giving the world a more human face.|Steven Biko

While on top of Everest      I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world        it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.|Edmund Hillary

I don’t know the law the kind of law of quantity and quality    but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.|Keanu Reeves

Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.|Jimmy Dean

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.|Ray Charles

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.|E. M. Forster

People say     ‘Dream big!’ – but you have to think about the logistics. It’s not just coming up with a great idea; it’s how you can sell or market or promote that great idea.|Marley Dias

Never be lucid          never state    if you would be regarded great.|Dylan Thomas

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words            pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.|Rupert Murdoch

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.|Ezra Pound

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.|William Wilberforce

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.|Queen Victoria

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.|Nas

A light cotton cami is always great to stay cool.|Ashley Madekwe

The idea behind fast food is great – people want convenience.|Kimbal Musk

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.|Ken Venturi

There is a dark side in all of us. And for us ‘bad’ people the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains    and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.|Christopher Lee

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder          the joy           the tender moments – and you get the tears at the end           too.|Harlan Coben

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.|Chief Seattle

Globalization can be a great opportunity.|Emmanuel Macron

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.|Charles Kettering

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it         he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.|Pablo Casals

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.|T. J. Miller

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.|Thornton Wilder

A great way to get all the right nutrients is to make a colorful plate – mix of good vegetables        carbohydrates           and protein. If you notice all your vegetables are green change it up and add another color for a variety of benefits in one meal.|Summer Sanders

No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.|Morley Safer

Show me a great actor and I’ll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress and you’ve seen the devil.|W. C. Fields

Life is made up         not of great sacrifices or duties     but of little things    in which smiles and kindness        and small obligations given habitually    are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.|Humphry Davy

For me            it’s a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15    people told me ‘You’re not going to be a DJ.’|Afrojack

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.|James Jeans

I’m an incurable optimist    and I’m a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short          and new challenges are exciting.|Cherie Blair

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.|Boris Yeltsin

The world is starving for new ideas and great leaders who will champion those ideas.|Lisa Su

Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.|Dale T. Mortensen

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.|Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do like my breasts. They’re great so much fun. You can do what you like with them.|Denise Van Outen

I got a lot of great life lessons from the entertainment industry. The first was being able to feel comfortable taking risks.|Jesse Itzler

Cartoons make kids happy  and that’s a great feeling.|Zelda Williams

I look back on my career and my time as commissioner with great fondness.|Mick Foley

It is the experiences the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it’s great to be alive!|Christopher McCandless

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything – meals            jobs    clothing.|Tom Brokaw

Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill… With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ           He could get across the vacuum.|George Washington Carver

Don’t believe the hype. I don’t care how many number ones you have at the box office       I don’t care how much they say you’re great     don’t believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you’re supposed to do.|Tyler Perry

I like cats a lot. I’ve always liked cats. They’re great company. When they eat          they always leave a little bit at the bottom of the bowl. A dog will polish the bowl          but a cat always leaves a little bit. It’s like an offering.|Christopher Walken

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!|Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world          but in the meantime there’ll be great companies.|Sam Altman

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.|Ray Bradbury

They missed a great opportunity to shut up.|Jacques Chirac

I think bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are great ideas. They should be allowed to be traded freely and used freely to find their appropriate role in the economy.|Thomas Peterffy

Vanity is great motivation  to be fair.|Matthew McConaughey

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.|Jim Mattis

Having read the histories of other countries        I saw that expansion was everything        and that the world’s surface being limited          the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.|Cecil Rhodes

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today  but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.|William Glasser

I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.|Hulk Hogan

We are all one – or at least we should be – and it is our job        our duty        and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.|Roy Barnes

My wardrobe reflects my long-standing belief that great style lives in the details.|Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

The idea of winning a doctor’s degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle        and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.|Elizabeth Blackwell

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.|Norman Cousins

Great political leaders risk unpopularity  patiently explain their case and confront prejudice        bigotry and vested interests.|Ann Widdecombe

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.|George Santayana

I am about to take my last voyage a great leap in the dark.|Thomas Hobbes

Social media unfortunately           just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality        so it’s really easy to look at someone else’s life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.|Franchesca Ramsey

Death comes to all    but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.|Georg Fabricius

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know         and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape  I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.|Christopher Columbus

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.|Henry Miller

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.|M. Night Shyamalan

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.|Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly Can never know what true friendship means.|Charles Kingsley

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare            social justice can never be attained.|Helen Keller

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.|Jean Giraudoux

One of the great cosmic laws          I think           is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something       anything        in our thought          then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we’ve been wishing to lead ourselves.|Richard Bach

Great loves too must be endured.|Coco Chanel

It was great. I mean  it’s a blast directing underwater stuff.|David R. Ellis

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not     I can say       for one            that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men        by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.|Abraham Lincoln

The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone   regardless of gender and background   feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact.|Christine Tsai

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels  in the deepest sense about what is being photographed.|Ansel Adams

Great moments of entertainment   great football           unforgettable evenings. I think that’s what it’s all about: experience           emotions       and the special touch that the Champions League brings on and off the field.|Clarence Seedorf

It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.|Phil McGraw

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.|Charles Caleb Colton

Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague people put out by steel        crying to the great immortal God for relief.|Nostradamus

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.|Walt Whitman

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.|Samuel Johnson

A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.|William Styron

When people push back on you and don’t think you can do it   and you struggle a little bit and wonder if they’re right           it drives you to be successful and to be a great player.|Reggie Jackson

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.|Lao Tzu

A great melodic line is like a person’s soul          and coming up with an original melody  it can be like you are illustrating the soul.|Ludovico Einaudi

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.|Aristotle

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.|J. Paul Getty

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.|David Attenborough

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.|Marcus Tullius Cicero

Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual         physically beautiful place.|Michael Mann

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.|John Ruskin

It is a great thing to be a child of God       and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege            you will know the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings.|Ellen G. White

It only serves to show what sort of person a man must be who can’t even get testimonials. No       no; if a man brings references  it proves nothing; but if he can’t    it proves a great deal.|Joseph Pulitzer

Great lives never go out; they go on.|Benjamin Harrison

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull         and sharpen his discrimination though blunt   and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.|A. E. Housman

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.|Friedrich Nietzsche

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.|Aaron Sorkin

It’s true that in my family    everyone loves football. So it’s great to have a family that’s united behind you and doesn’t leave you.|Karim Benzema

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.|Winston Churchill

There may be a great fire in our hearts     yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it       and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.|Vincent Van Gogh

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.|Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I’m done losing weight         I feel great    and I love looking like a woman. I love being curvy and having boobs and hips. It’s hot. I don’t ever want to be size zero.|Sara Rue

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.|Billy Graham

Where the willingness is great        the difficulties cannot be great.|Niccolo Machiavelli

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.|Arthur Schopenhauer

Great and glorious God       and Thou Lord Jesus          I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me      Lord   so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.|Francis of Assisi

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack it’s almost always due to personal growth.|John C. Maxwell

Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don’t want to face.|Melissa McBride

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.|Mencius

In general      pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.|John Ruskin

Better a little which is well done    than a great deal imperfectly.|Plato

The smallest flower is a thought    a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole     of whom they have a persistent intuition.|Honore de Balzac

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others    we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours       and this we should do freely and generously.|Benjamin Franklin

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are the signs of our ideas only           and not for things themselves.|John Locke

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being  to risk his body        to risk his life    in a great cause.|Theodore Roosevelt

Sooner and later you will see great changes made          dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel          the heavens draw near to the Balance.|Nostradamus

Tradition is the great misleader because it’s too easy to follow what has already been done – even though you may think you’re giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent      instead of merely expressing myself.|Marcel Duchamp

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.|Charles R. Swindoll

Great and good are seldom the same man.|Winston Churchill

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.|Aristotle

If Heaven exists        to know that there’s laughter          that would be a great thing.|Robin Williams

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.|Albert Camus

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say      ‘We did it ourselves.’|Lao Tzu

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.|William James

The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.|Steve Jobs

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.|Albert Einstein

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.|Sigmund Freud

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me            I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it     so to speak.|Victor Hugo

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well           then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think ‘Great I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.|Joel Osteen

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been   I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there   and I am prepared to expect wonders.|Henry David Thoreau

Great necessities call out great virtues.|Abigail Adams

No human being       however great          or powerful  was ever so free as a fish.|John Ruskin

You are that vast thing that you see far     far off with great telescopes.|Alan Watts

A great man is a torch in the darkness      a beacon in superstition’s night     an inspiration and a prophecy.|Robert Green Ingersoll

It is not by muscle    speed or physical dexterity that great things are achieved       but by reflection            force of character    and judgment.|Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is better wither to be silent          or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words     but a great deal in a few.|Pythagoras

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.|Washington Irving

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa  whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts        of our forests           of all our great wildernesses.|Nelson Mandela

The years like great black oxen tread the world  and God        the herdsman goads them on behind            and I am broken by their passing feet.|William Butler Yeats

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a          from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way.|Milton Friedman

Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it’s a great demonstration of love. It’s really what love is. It’s finding areas in which other people are more important than you.|Rudy Giuliani

The atom bomb was no ‘great decision.’ It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.|Harry S Truman

It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.|Rita Rudner

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds       though he risk everything.|Plutarch

You have to study a great deal to know a little.|Montesquieu

The herd seek out the great not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.|Napoleon Bonaparte

He was a great patriot          a humanitarian         a loyal friend; provided      of course       he really is dead.|Voltaire

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.|A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

On a level plain        simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.|Karl Marx

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.|Otto von Bismarck

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.|Maya Angelou

An unexamined faith is not worth having for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will         of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.|Jon Meacham

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.|Carl von Clausewitz

A great man is always willing to be little.|Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great restaurant doesn’t distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.|Danny Meyer

If someone is being bullied or feels like an outsider       and they relate to something that I’ve done            even if it’s just igniting a spark     that’s great. I had that feeling as a kid. I was messed with no end.|Johnny Depp

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.|Virginia Woolf

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.|Isaac Asimov

I can do small things in a great way.|James Freeman Clarke

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts        it is still the greatest city in the whole world.|Walt Whitman

From the depths of the West of Europe    a young child will be born of poor people           he who by his tongue will seduce a great troop; his fame will increase towards the realm of the East.|Nostradamus

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.|Samuel Johnson

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.|Lao Tzu

However great his outward conformity    the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment.|Louis D. Brandeis

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.|Benjamin Franklin

No great thing is created suddenly.|Epictetus

Always make the choice to learn. What Princeton taught me was whatever mess you are studying            pull a thread with great persistence ’til you have clarity of thought. Princeton taught me how to solve a problem. How to think – that’s what we pull out of this place.|Maria Ressa

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things there is no better place than the U.S.|Elon Musk

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil         which I have forsaken in my great discouragement          and I will go on with my drawing.|Vincent Van Gogh

It’s great to have atmosphere at the stadium         but football is all about the players.|Isco

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.|Muhammad Ali

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.|Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart            which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.|Maya Angelou

When you play in a great club like Real Madrid it’s hard to stay here.|Karim Benzema

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other   and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.|Bill Gates

No crime is so great as daring to excel.|Winston Churchill

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.|Lee Iacocca

I look forward to death with great anticipation   to meeting God face to face.|Billy Graham

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.|Benjamin Disraeli

If the great American people will only keep their temper          on both sides of the line     the troubles will come to an end           and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.|Abraham Lincoln

Praised be You          my Lord        with all Your creatures       especially Sir Brother Sun Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You            Most High     he bears the likeness.|Francis of Assisi

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.|Mencius

The great dialectic in our time is not         as anciently and by some still supposed  between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.|John Kenneth Galbraith

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.|Niccolo Machiavelli

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.|Bertrand Russell

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.|Mark Twain

People know if you care about them. How do you show people that you care? By caring for them. By putting their needs first. By sacrificing for them. By serving them. Do that   and you’ll build a great team.|Eric Greitens

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.|Albert Einstein

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger    since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing in great crises           to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.|Aristotle

Thrift is of great revenue.|Marcus Tullius Cicero

A great empire          like a great cake      is most easily diminished at the edges.|Benjamin Franklin

For a true writer        each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes   with great luck         he will succeed.|Ernest Hemingway

There never was any heart truly great and generous       that was not also tender and compassionate.|Robert Frost

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.|Ellen G. White

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!|John F. Kennedy

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear           and I don’t know how not to.|Maya Angelou

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.|Abraham Lincoln

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.|William Shakespeare

The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn       Capricorn     Jupiter           Mercury in Taurus; Venus           also Cancer  Mars in zero.|Nostradamus

No man was ever great by imitation.|Samuel Johnson

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart  gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.|David Foster Wallace

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.|Theodore Roosevelt

Never give in – never           never never never in nothing great or small    large or petty            never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.|Winston Churchill

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.|Friedrich Nietzsche

You need great passion       because everything you do with great pleasure  you do well.|Juan Manuel Fangio

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.|Benjamin Franklin

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God            who assisted him     shall be with me and aid me           I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me I shall not fail – I shall succeed.|Abraham Lincoln

My life has been one great big joke           a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.|Maya Angelou

I dress according to my mood. Some days I don’t want to dress up      while some days I want to look great and so I make an extra effort to put on some Kajal and beautiful dresses         but it all depends on my mood.|Rhea Chakraborty

Veterans are a symbol of what makes our nation great   and we must never forget all they have done to ensure our freedom.|Rodney Frelinghuysen

What makes a leader great is not the fact that she (or he) has all the answers but the ability to inspire and empower us to find the answers.|Abhijit Banerjee